From the category archives:

Continuous Integration

Justifying Continuous Integration Expenditure

February 25, 2010
burnt money

Banos commented on my last post:
So why, oh why, oh why is it so difficult to get an additional server? Has anyone come up with a formula to produce some numbers for the bean counters to justify this already?
I propose this is an endemic problem that the guys on the ground give up fighting to [...]

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Build Pattern: Green-lit build

February 25, 2010
green traffic light

Continuous Integration should be a highway, not a parking lot. But that’s what happens sometimes when developers end up competing for limited Continuous Integration capacity. Developers working on critical and time-senstive work like production bugfixes can struggle to get their builds serviced promptly; they can be fighting a tide of checkins from their [...]

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The hidden cost of building

February 23, 2010
piggy bank - what does continuous integration cost you?

Thanks to EJ Ciramella for this thought provoking post. There’ll be a Build Doctor T-Shirt on it’s way to him soon.
In this down economy, irrespective of size of company involved, people want to save money, limit costs and increase throughput of their systems. One area of savings is the build and continuous integration [...]

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Continuous Integration in the cloud: good idea?

February 23, 2010

Continuous Integration can be tricky to provision. It’s IO or CPU bound at the beginning and then it has a tendancy to batter your database for a long time while staying almost idle. Slava Imeshev of Viewtier kindly commented on myoutsourcing continuous integration post:
My take on this is that hosted CI in a [...]

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Tool News, February 2010

February 16, 2010

There’s a new Hudson out. It’s got 7 bug fixes and 3 enhancements, including some profiling and optimisation work to speed up the UI.
Atlassian have embarked on a Build Engineer hiring offensive. They seem to be based in Sydney. Atlassian would appear to be a great place to work.
Electric Cloud have released [...]

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CI in the Cloud Beta Now Available

February 9, 2010

As RunCodeRun change their focus, Stelligent announce their cloud-based Continuous Integration system.  What a day.  With the Hudson EC2 plugin, scaling Continuous Integtration might get interesting.
You’ll want to think about where you VCS lives, and to what systems you might want it to talk to.
CI in the Cloud

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RunCodeRun Returning to Open Source Only

February 9, 2010

This is an odd turn.  RunCodeRun were one of the first (if not the first) companies to offer Continuous Integration as a service.  They’re going to stick to providing Continuous Integration for open source projects.  Reading between the lines, (and with a little guesswork) it sounds like closed-source developers are wanting a lot but unable [...]

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The official hudson weblog

February 8, 2010

R. Tyler Ballance has been unveiled as the mastermind behind the @hudsonci Twitter account.  He’s been working on an official Hudson blog. I’m hoping this will be a stepping stone for building out more Hudson community and conversation. Well done, all.
continuous blog | the official hudson weblog.

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Continuous Delivery: new book now online

February 8, 2010
less continuous delivery

There’s a new book in Martin Fowler’s Signature Series: “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation” [you heard that here first]. It couldn’t be written by a nicer couple of guys: Jez Humble and David Farley. Both authors have been scribing away on this book for years.
The book [...]

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New CI tool: Crazy Ivan

February 3, 2010

“Continuous integration should really just be a script that captures the output of running your project update & test commands and presents recent results in a static html page”
This quote showed up on one my Twitter searches a couple of times.  I thought it was an enthusiastic tweet, but it turns out to be one [...]

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